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dingua 4 points ago +22 / -18

No, that’s delusional. They’re there to safeguard Biden’s inauguration. That’s it.

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dingua -1 points ago +1 / -2

You do realize I am mocking the people who believe this, not endorsing this, right?

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dingua -1 points ago +1 / -2

Trump is not going to have a second term. He’s talking about a transition to the Biden administration.

I’ll be back on Wednesday to collect your admission that you were completely delusional. Unless, of course, Biden being inaugurated and serving as president is also somehow part of your plan.

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dingua 0 points ago +1 / -1

In the ordinary use, an assumption is a supposition or stipulation, often with the connotation of a lack of epistemic warrant.

The statement I am making is that Trump will leave office on the 20th, and that any claim otherwise is preposterous and betrays a misunderstanding of general events and the world so egregious as to qualify as delusional. If Trump leaves office on the 20th, that statement will always have been correct.

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dingua 2 points ago +3 / -1

Nah, I much prefer being on the record about such things. Makes it far easier to force people to admit their deludedness later.

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dingua 0 points ago +1 / -1

There is no such evolution; read again:

My predictions aren't so much predictions as they are descriptions of what is the case, to which little possibility of error attaches.

Then continue on:

in much the same way that the statement that the British monarchy will still exist on the 20th is sufficiently certain that a reasonable commentator would not be inclined to describe it as a hypothesis. All propositions are, in a sense, hypotheses, but for the purposes of ordinary discussion describing certain statements as hypotheses implies epistemic uncertainty that simply doesn't exist.

I have made no mistakes; forward-looking statements can absolutely be statements of fact. Claiming that Biden will take office on the 20th is no more an ‘opinion’ than it is an ‘opinion’ that the sun will rise that day, or that the dollar will be the US currency that day.

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dingua 0 points ago +1 / -1

That's good. There's nothing wrong with hope; the issues come when hope infects one's patterns of belief and reasoning.

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dingua -5 points ago +5 / -10

Good grief. Naturally the book of the Trumps' lives has not concluded, but the Trump administration absolutely is, and Melania's language reflects that.

Biden will be inaugurated on Wednesday. That may be unpleasant, but obstinately denying reality because you dislike it is silly and what liberals do.

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dingua 0 points ago +6 / -6

As this chapter comes to a close, it is important to acknowledge the many people and departments without whom my role as First Lady would not have been possible.

Melania, like all sane people, accepts that the Trump administration ends on Wednesday, unpleasant as that might be.

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dingua -2 points ago +1 / -3

Trying to do what? I'm accurately stating what will happen in precisely the same way that I have done on numerous situations in the past. Wednesday's lesson will be bitter for you, but it's a lesson you evidently need to learn: reality doesn't always turn out the way you want.

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dingua 0 points ago +3 / -3

😂 I am a Trump supporter; I’m simply not delusional.

I’ll be back in a few days to collect your admission that you were in fact delusional. I’m quite correct that Biden will take office on the 20th in exactly the same way I was correct about the krakens/lawsuits/SCOTUS/Barr/Pence/everything else the delusional here disagreed with me on.

Obstinately denying reality because it upsets you is what liberals do. And you, apparently.

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dingua 0 points ago +6 / -6

I’m not in the least bit full of shit; I’m simply describing objective reality. The soldiers are there to maintain order throughout the inauguration of Biden. The idea that they’re there for any other reason is desperate rationalization.

I’ll happily admit I was completely wrong if I am, but I’m not. I’ll be back to collect your concession that I was correct in a couple of days.

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dingua -2 points ago +1 / -3

He absolutely will. I take it you’ll admit you were completely delusional if he in fact does?

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dingua -4 points ago +7 / -11

Yep. Biden is going to be inaugurated as president on the 20th. Trump will leave office. The military will do nothing to prevent this.

If this is indeed what happens - and I am no more wrong about this than I was in any of the other cases in which I disagreed with the emotionally motivated hordes here about what would transpire (krakens, lawsuits, SCOTUS, Barr, Pence, etc.) - I take it you’ll openly admit that you were completely delusional?

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dingua 0 points ago +1 / -1

Nah. I take it you'll openly admit you were completely delusional if Biden is sworn in on the 20th? Or will the goalposts simply move?

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dingua 0 points ago +1 / -1

My predictions aren't so much predictions as they are descriptions of what is the case, to which little possibility of error attaches, in much the same way that the statement that the British monarchy will still exist on the 20th is sufficiently certain that a reasonable commentator would not be inclined to describe it as a hypothesis. All propositions are, in a sense, hypotheses, but for the purposes of ordinary discussion describing certain statements as hypotheses implies epistemic uncertainty that simply doesn't exist.

Biden is going to leave office on the 20th, much as the sun is going to come up on the 20th.

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dingua -1 points ago +1 / -2

I'm stuck in a fantasy land? I'm agreeing with you... I'm OP

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dingua 0 points ago +1 / -1

That’s delusional.

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